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| December 23, 2005 | Friday | Ziqa’ad 20, 1426 |
Four more held for theft in railway yard
SAHIWAL, Dec 22: Police arrested four more people in connection with a scam involving theft of locomotive parts and equipment from local railway yard. As many as five accused had already been arrested for their alleged involvement in the scam.
The recent arrests were made when a divisional inquiry team of railway took into custody the yard’s record on Thursday.
The record showed that a goods train, 4201-up, going from Quetta to Lahore, remained stuck up in the local railway yard from Dec 9 to Dec 20.
Official sources said that from 68 train coaches, as many as 150 break blocks, stress bars and 272 break shoes were removed illegally. The blocks had been reportedly sold for Rs1,000 each, causing a heavy loss to the department.
According to the record, from Dec 1 to Dec 22, total nine goods trains made stopovers at the yard for more than 24 hours. Sources said the parts were removed from three such trains.
Meanwhile, Grain Market police got physical remand of all the nine accused. They are, Ghulam Mohiuddin Kabaria, Muhammad Amin, Imran, Imdad Ali, Allah Ditta, Sher Khan, Aminuddin, Muhammad Akbar and Arshad Masih.
A special police team is conducting raids to arrest the remaining six accused.
KILLED: A woman, along with her five accomplices, allegedly gunned down a farmer near Qadirabad on Wednesday night and fled away.
Reports said Naziran Bibi had been in litigation with one Arshad Ali, a farmer of the same village, for many years. Recently, she lost the case which infuriated her.
The woman, along with Muhammad Ali, Subah Sadiq, Manzoor, Akbar and two unidentified men shot dead Arshad when he was returning to his village (chak 62/4-R).
Noorshah police have registered a case against Naziran Bibi and her accomplices under section 302/148 and 149 PPC with no arrest.
DISTILLERIES: Ghaziabad police claimed to have unearthed two distilleries at chak 59/12-L, and took into custody 110 bottles of liquor, along with the equipment.
The police also arrested two men for running the distilleries.
Reports said Ghulam Rasool and Dildar Hussain, through their agents, had been supplying liquor in Chichawatni and Burewala tehsils. The police sent the accused to the central jail after registration of the case.
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